Leon Redbone Quotes

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

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• I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • History
  • Taken
  • Judge

• I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Believe
  • Yourself
  • Fight

• You can never plan the future by the past.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Future
  • Past
  • Plan

• My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Book
  • History

• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • History
  • Soul
  • Political

• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Long
  • History
  • Feeling

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Past
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • History
  • Tradition

• I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Past

• I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Past
  • Obstacles

• I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Past
  • Like
  • Losers

• You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • Writing
  • May

• The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • History
  • Think
  • You

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning

• Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • History
  • Hope

• History is more interesting than most people think.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • People
  • History
  • Interesting

• I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • History
  • Pretty
  • Crazy

• The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • History
  • Path
  • Mountain

• But he felt too confident in Catherine’s beautiful nature to be afraid of Ned. Catherine, who loved beauty, who was so much moved by it—witness her rapt face at The Immortal Hour—would never listen to blandishments from anyone with Ned’s nose. Besides, Ned was elderly. In spite of the fur rug up to his chin, Christopher had seen that all right. He was an elderly, puffy man. Elderliness and love! He grinned to himself. If only the elderly could see themselves….

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Love
  • Beauty
  • Afraid

• If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Believe
  • Believe In Yourself

• The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.

  

  Paul Watson
  • World
  • High
  • Nature

• The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

  

  Leon Redbone
  • History
  • Past